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Named Prime Minister just hours after his mother Indira was assassinated, in October 1984, Gandhi at first impressed his countrymen with his handling of problems at home and abroad. But recently his efforts have turned sour. The peace pact he negotiated with Sikh separatists in Punjab has been shredded by terrorists. Government bureaucrats have defeated his efforts to untangle red tape. His standing as a vote getter has been damaged by defeats for his party in six of the past seven state elections...
...this is a startling change from the situation little more than two years ago, when Indians voted the Congress Party into office by a landslide. The vote was a show of confidence in Gandhi only seven weeks after his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards. Gandhi cultivated an image as a young, honest politician who was determined to modernize the economy and clean up the Congress Party, whose members he said in 1985 "follow no principle of public morality." Today, none of those goals has been fulfilled, and Gandhi seems to have lost his golden electioneering...
...will someday be famous, and that of course is what happens. The former beach girl becomes the wife and then the widow of an important black revolutionary, assassinated by South African security forces. She later marries another black, who becomes President of his (unnamed) liberated country. She hobnobs with Indira Gandhi and Bishop Desmond Tutu. She and her husband are honored guests at the ceremony marking the accession of black rule in South Africa...
...shooting was the latest Sikh reprisal for the Indian army's 1984 attack on Punjab's Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, which left more than 600 dead. Vaidya was then army Chief of Staff. Those killed in retaliation include Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was gunned down in 1984 by her own Sikh bodyguards...
...independence in 1947, socialism has been an accepted part of India's political and economic system. Now the subcontinent has begun to embrace free enterprise too. The change is largely the work of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who took office in 1984 after the assassination of his mother Indira Gandhi. Rajiv has presided over a liberalization program that has slashed taxes and produced more than 80 decrees loosening or abolishing business restrictions. Despite foot-dragging by India's entrenched army of bureaucrats, overjoyed managers have responded by rushing to securities markets to raise cash for investments...